James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. In your conversations, starting with that first manager, talk about the challenges your organization faces with software development. Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 9, 2019

Otherwise, this leads to failure with big data projects. It’s also feeding into the management level at companies. They’re hiring data scientists expecting them to be data engineers. The company goes on an exhaustive search to find the best data scientist ever. We hired you to do data science.”.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. Depending on the size of your organization, your HR department may have change management experts on staff who can help. If not, you can hire consultants. The VP liked what I had to say. We spoke two weeks later.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 20, 2019

For a short period of time, worked for the government doing web development and then actually started a consulting business in Atlanta where my main client was the Federal Government in Washington D.C. It was a very small little consulting practice. Consulting is great.” Eric: I joined as an engineer.

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